The town next door has a community Facebook page and people are always posting about missing packages, lost and found. It’s gotten so bad I think the drivers just toss the packages wherever they land and leave it up to the folks in town to sort it out.
These days the carrier for Amazon is usually Amazon.
If someone left packages on my front door for longer than 24hrs, I’m going to assume they want me to have them. My yard isn’t their package storage lot. Obviously if I recognize my neighbor’s name or address, I’m going to hand it over because I’m not looking to score a free can opener or USB cable and assume my neighbors would like to have them but I’m not going out of my way to do Amazon any favors either once it becomes complicated.
And, even when they aren’t the carrier, it makes more sense for Amazon to be the point of contact for an incorrect address label. That type of mistake would most likely be on their side, not the carrier’s.
I’d only contact the carrier if the address label is correct, but delivered to the wrong place And it wasn’t just a neighbor’s address, as I know I’d want the item sooner rather than later.
Well, that and if the box/goods were damaged, of course.
Where I work, it’s what Sneeches get
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That’s what happened in the OP.
I don’t agree. The problem was that the address was incorrect on the label. The actual intended address was a different street. The courier delivered it to the closest address that actually existed. They can’t somehow know what the actual intended address was.
Either the mistake was Amazon’s fault, or the customer mistyped their address. The carrier would not be involved in either of those.
They delivered it to the wrong address. Mail delivery isn’t horseshoes.
This is exactly my feeling on the subject. If there’s a clearly different address and the shipper screwed up, sure, I’ll drop it off at the neighbor’s house. Or if I recognize their name. But if it’s across town, or across the country, or the address is right and it just isn’t for us, that’s the end of the line. Not gonna contact Amazon, not gonna chase people down in NJ… I’m just opening that box up, and probably dropping the contents in my goodwill box. If it were really expensive, maybe I’d make a little more effort at that point, but that hasn’t happened.
Agreed. The people who are attempting to order stuff may not realize their stuff is misdirected.
I was wondering if this might be one of the scams where, say, a drug dealer orders some merchandise to be sent to an address, while a fellow drug dealer dashed by and steals the package off the doorstep before the homeowners get there - but I suspect Amazon doesn’t ship all that much cocaine…
I will move packages within my cul-de-sac (which is the worse mis-deliveries I’ve seen), but am now thinking that anything beyond that I won’t and you shouldn’t either (unless you open it and it is prescription drugs and someone might die).
Me spending time to correctly deliver something that Amazon/UPS/FedEx/etc drops in the wrong place is removing the onus from them to do their damn jobs (or for the purchaser to make sure they type their address correctly). If whatever nebulous “they” begins to have significant enough costs from replacing mis-delivered packages at some point they’ll work on fixing their system.
You can also write “wrong person”, and give it back to the carrier.
In Indiana, anything you get that you didn’t order may be regarded as a gift.
I live on 31st AVE and occaisionally get a package labeled for 30th AVE. And vice versa. I always schlep it over. And every once in a while it’s a critical time sensitive work delivery that I watch like a hawk. You know “out for delivery” “been delivered” and nothing on the porch. I frantically run over a street and usually get there before 30th AVE folks know it’s even there.
Is that different from the federal law about unordered merchandise? Because that doesn’t apply in this case - this is misdelivered merchandise - the name and address do not match the name & address that the package was left at.
Do you know the relevant statute? I found this law about unsolicited merchandise.
Sec. 1. Where unsolicited merchandise is delivered to a person for whom it is intended such person has a right to refuse to accept delivery of this merchandise or he may deem it to be a gift and use it or dispose of it in any manner without any obligation to the sender.
I bolded the relevant bit - it still has be intended for you. You can’t just take stuff delivered to the wrong address.
but what if what you ordered was a horseshoe set???
Phoenix has a huge warehourse center on the west side, so often we can get packages the same day. I got a book one afternoon that had water damage. Let me clarify - it was still wet! I can only imagine they dropped it in a puddle right before it went in the box and said “fuck it. Ship it!” That’s fast delivery!
The carrier was a guy in a blue van (or even a car) that dumped it on your porch and ran. How you going to give it to him? Amazon isn’t the US mail, they don’t come buy daily to see if you left them anything.
I don’t know if this is country-wide, but sometimes when our package is delivered, we get a text with a photo of it sitting on the porch.